Tyburn
English
Proper noun
Tyburn
- (historical) A village in Middlesex, England where public hangings were carried out until 1783.
- 1499, John Skelton, The Bowge of Courte:
- Unthryftynes in hym may well be shewed, / For whome Tyborne groneth both daye and nyghte.
Derived terms
- Tyburnia
- Tyburnian
- Tyburn ticket
- Tyburn tippet
- Tyburn tree
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